Microplastics are everywhere: they even grow inside plants. We even find them in the placenta of mothers before childbirth. And that's not all.
Today the terrible, tiny plastic particles from bottles and other waste they fall upon us from the sky after degrading into microplastics in the oceans.
A new study in the journal Science ha rilevato che in 14 mesi più di 1.000 tonnellate di particelle di microplastica cadono ogni anno in 11 aree protette negli Stati Uniti occidentali, l'equivalente di oltre 120 milioni di bottiglie d'acqua in plastica.
Plastic rains: incredible indifference
Craig Bennett, CEO of The Wildlife Trusts, said the world is not yet taking the microplastics crisis seriously, but if we don't stop using this material, it will have huge implications for human health.
Lo prenderemo sul serio come abbiamo fatto con i combustibili fossili e le piogge acide. La vera storia di cui parleremo tra cinque e dieci anni è l'impatto della plastica e in particolare delle micro plastiche sulla salute umana
Craig Bennett
We have seen heartbreaking images of our tortured nature around. Turtles suffocated by bags, whales with tons of plastic in their bodies. A beautiful, recent project, "Moai + Plastic”, Tells of an Easter island (the famous Rapa Nui from the film) invaded by another island, the plastic one in the ocean.
Yet, apart from this and the denunciation of some sites, the impact of plastic rains that even fall on us from the sky and enter our food chain has not yet been explored.
We pay today for the choices of 70 years ago
della fauna selvatica ha sottolineato che sebbene abbiamo visto "immagini di tartarughe che annegano nel mare perché hanno mangiato sacchetti di plastica", l' impact of the plastic that rains on us and entering our food chain has not been extensively explored.
I problemi che stiamo riscontrando ora riguardano i materiali immessi nell'ambiente negli ultimi 50, 60 o 70 anni. Negli ultimi 10 anni, però, la plastica monouso ha visto una letterale esplosione, e ce ne renderemo conto tra non molto.
Measures taken by many countries have reduced the problem of acid rain and chemicals can be removed from soil and buildings. Plastic rains are much worse, because their impact cannot be easily reduced: there is currently no real way to filter microplastics from the soil.
